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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Wyoming by William MacLeod Raine: slopping upward gradually toward the first long blue line of the
Shoshones that stretched before them in the distance. Their
nooning was at running stream called Smith's Creek, and by
nightfall the party was well up in the higher foot hills.
In the course of the day and the second night both the sheepman
and his friend made attempt to establish a more cordial
relationship with Chalkeye, but so far as any apparent results
went their efforts were vain. He refused grimly to meet their
overtures half way, even though it was plain from his manner that
a break between him and his chief could not long be avoided.
All day by crooked trails they pushed forward, and as the party
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